林业科学英语Unit 3 Lecture 4.pptx

Unit3ForestEcology

Lecture4Researchingtask—literaturereview

Whatisaliteraturereview?Aliteraturereviewisanaccountofwhathasbeenpublishedonatopicbyaccreditedscholarsandresearchers.Inwritingtheliteraturereview,yourpurposeistoconveytoyourreaderwhatknowledgeandideashavebeenestablishedonatopicandwhatstrengthsandweaknessesthosestudieshaveare.

Aliteraturereviewusuallyhasanorganizationalpatternandcombinesbothsummaryandsynthesis.Asummaryisarecapoftheimportantinformationofthesource.Asynthesisisare-organization,orareshuffling,ofthatinformation.Whatisaliteraturereview?

interpretoldmaterialcombinenewwitholdinterpretationstracetheintellectualprogressionofthefieldincludingmajordebates.Whatisaliteraturereview?

First,focusonyourspecifictopic.NarrowdownyourassignmentasmuchaspossibleHowdoyouwritealiteraturereview?

Second,findtherelevantliterature.Findmaterialsthatarerelevanttothesubject.Chooseliteraturethataidsintheunderstandingandvalidationofthetopic.Theauthorshavethecorrectlevelofexpertiseandcredentials.Theargumentisconvincing.Howdoyouwritealiteraturereview?

Third,writeaclear,shortintroduction.anoverviewofthesubjectortheorytheobjectiveoftheliteraturereview.athesisstatementHowdoyouwritealiteraturereview?

Fourth,brieflysummarizeyourpareandcontrastdifferentauthors’viewsgroupauthorswhodrawsimilarconclusionsHowdoyouwritealiteraturereview?

Finally,synthesizeyoursummaries.synthesizeresultsandindicatewhatisandisnotknownidentifyareasofcontroversyintheliteratureformulatequestionsthatneedfurtherresearchshowhowyourstudyrelatestothepreviousstudiesandtheliteratureHowdoyouwritealiteraturereview?

Chooseonefromthefollowingtopics,searchrelevantliteratureandwritealiteraturereviewonit.1.Generatingelectricityfromthe